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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on quotations and translations
- Standard abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The pastoral movement and deviant speech: major texts
- 2 The lies of the Fall, the tongues of Pentecost: typing and converting the deviant speaker
- 3 Exemplifying deviant speech: murmur in Patience
- 4 Confessing the deviant speaker: verbal deception in the Confessio Amantis
- 5 Reforming deviant social practices: turpiloquium/scurrilitas in the B Version of Piers Plowman
- 6 Restraining the deviant speaker: Chaucer's Manciple and Parson
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Standard abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on quotations and translations
- Standard abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The pastoral movement and deviant speech: major texts
- 2 The lies of the Fall, the tongues of Pentecost: typing and converting the deviant speaker
- 3 Exemplifying deviant speech: murmur in Patience
- 4 Confessing the deviant speaker: verbal deception in the Confessio Amantis
- 5 Reforming deviant social practices: turpiloquium/scurrilitas in the B Version of Piers Plowman
- 6 Restraining the deviant speaker: Chaucer's Manciple and Parson
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
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- Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English LiteraturePastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997